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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1996
Page
1
Otto and Alecia Lee turned a weathered downtown house into a home through hard work. The story highlights the couple’s journey from a fix me up property to a revived family residence in Aiken.
Three commanders from the 86th Airlift Wing at Ramstein Air Base were relieved after an inquiry into the Croatia jetliner crash that killed Commerce Secretary Ron Brown and 34 others. Maj. Gen. Charles Heflebower announced he had lost confidence in Brig. Gen. William Stevens Col. Roger Hansen and Col. John tions.
A water main break in front of the Fermata Club on Whiskey Road disrupted traffic and left residents without water for a few hours. City Engineer Larry Morris cited recent rains and a temperature drop as causes. crews responded quickly, limiting major problems.
Obituary notices list multiple individuals including Lewis S. Hall in Aiken, John Hawkins in North Augusta, Willie Bell Key, Curtis Thomas in Cambridge Massachusetts, Leila Mae Tindal, Swansea, and Lynda Owens Williams in Aiken with brief notices on Page 2B.
GTS Duratek rose from debt to win a 14 million contract to vitrify low level waste at Savannah River Site turning it into glass. Westinghouse and SRS tout vitrification as the future of nuclear waste management reducing volume and saving burial space. Experts say the process, refined at SRS, will spread across the United States as stable glass is formed at the Defense Waste Processing Facility.
Columbia negotiators reached a spending plan for state government after hours of talks. The conference panel approved a 3.4 percent state employee raise starting in October and a 185 million dollar wish list of projects to be funded from a surplus. The plan includes a three-year all day kindergarten funding roadblock resolved. The full legislature and governor must sign off, with veto power possible.
Candye Slay of Redcliffe Elementary Beech Island champions taxpayer funded full-day kindergarten calling it priority one. She notes four full-day programs yield phenomenal progress and praise results amid concerns over day care alternatives.
House Ways and Means Chairman Henry Brown said the budget agreement came after a conference committee met late Wednesday night in secret, apparently violating the open meetings law until reporters prompted it to end.
Charles D. Starnes 54 was charged with accessory after a felony, owning the property where two bodies were found in Aiken County. Norman Edwin Starnes 30 faces two murder counts, and Gwen W. Ott is charged with accessory after a felony. The victims are William C. Welborn 51 and Jarred Lee Champlin 26. Authorities say the uncle contacted his nephew after discovering the remains.
The red cockaded woodpecker once dwindling from habitat loss at the Savannah River Site and across the southeast has risen from four to about ninety birds since 1985. Forest Service efforts include artificial nesting boxes and banding to monitor and boost populations.
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